Practice infrastructure compliance vocabulary: Terraform plan violations, non-compliant resources, tagging policies, auto-remediation, drift detection, and compliance reporting.
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'The Terraform plan shows a ___ violation.' Which noun describes a policy breach in IaC?
A 'compliance violation' in a Terraform plan means the planned infrastructure changes would create or modify a resource that doesn't meet defined policy standards (e.g., missing required tags, open security groups).
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'The resource is non-___ with the tagging policy.' Which adjective fits?
'Non-compliant' is the standard adjective for a resource that doesn't meet policy requirements. 'Non-compliant with the tagging policy' means required tags are missing or incorrect.
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'Auto-___ runs when drift is detected.' Which noun describes automatically fixing policy violations?
'Auto-remediation' automatically corrects non-compliant or drifted resources — e.g., adding missing tags, reverting unauthorized security group changes, or enforcing encryption settings.
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What is 'drift' in infrastructure compliance?
Infrastructure 'drift' occurs when someone manually changes a resource outside of IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), creating a gap between the declared desired state and the actual running state.
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'The compliance report shows 94% policy ___.' Which noun measures how many resources follow the policy?
'Policy adherence' (or compliance rate) measures the percentage of resources that meet all defined policies. 94% means 6% of resources are non-compliant and need remediation.